American Crystal Sugar workers indicate possible contract vote

Author:: BMTN Staff
Publish date:: Nov 22, 2012

Locked-out workers with American Crystal Sugar may soon vote again on a labor contract, the InForum of Fargo-Moorhead reported.

The union workers have been locked out since August 2011. More than 1,300 workers from plants in Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa have been affected by the lockout.

Word of the possible vote came from an American Crystal Sugar website devoted to contract negotiations.

The website said members from the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union (BCTWG) and management from American Crystal Sugar met Nov. 15, where the BCTWG asked questions about the company's final offer.

In an open letter on the site, the company said that BCTWG had indicated -- but did not give a formal notification -- that members may vote on the contract Dec. 1.

Union workers launched a national consumer boycott of American Crystal Sugar's products in mid-October.

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Locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers in Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa are soon going to vote on a company offer for the third time in less than a year. The vote, set for June 23, comes after failed talks last week between the company and the workers' union. American Crystal Sugar said this is their final offer.

Union members are demonstrating at the homes of American Crystal Sugar's directors as the labor dispute drags on. An AFL-CIO spokesman tells the Fargo Forum the demonstrations will continue indefinitely. Roughly 1,300 workers have been locked out from plants in Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa for more than a year.

American Crystal Sugar is adamant that it will not change its contract offer to 1,300 union workers. Some of the employees who have been locked out for nearly 11 months are now interested in voting again on the offer they've spurned in the past. Union leaders have scheduled a vote for June 23.